Drat It: After a full year, dog still annoying ... and lovable

1:11 PM,
Jul. 11, 2014

Written by

Gere Goble
Features editor

On Friday, we celebrated our little brown dog's first "Gotcha Day." One year earlier, I took my daughter over to the Humane Society of Richland County office so she could fill out the paperwork and officially adopt ZiZi.

That is a very critical difference between our two dogs. Loki, the gigantic, black Newfoundlander-mix, is a family pet. Zi, who's such a mutt we can't even guess at her heritage, belongs to my daughter.

Not that it spares me from having to buy dog food for both, or pay double the vet bills. When it came time to buy dog tags, we filled out two forms - I filled out one for Loki, Daughter ...